Nevado Sajama queñua woodlands: the highest-altitude forest
Possible world’s highest altitude forests. These sparse stands of low queñua (Polylepis tarapacana) trees grow up to the height of 5 000 m.
The southernmost forest at Cape Horn
World’s southernmost forest – a group of low, windswept trees: Nothofagus antarctica, Nothofagus betuloides and Drimys winteri.
Kure Atoll
The northernmost coral atoll in the world. The only island – Green Island – is a habitat for hundreds of thousands of birds.
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
Grove of Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva), contains the oldest known individual trees in the world, more than 4,750 years old.
Hyperion tree
The tallest announced tree in the world (there are known taller ones), coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl.). 115.85 m tall, diameter 4.84 m. Contains 502 m3 of wood. In total, more than 500 coast redwoods exceed the height of 103 m.
Thimmamma Marrimanu
World’s largest known single tree by the area of its crown. Canopy of this banyan (Ficus benghalensis L.) covers 19,107 m².
Yea Flora Fossil Site
Site with 415 million year old (Silurian) fossils of ancient vascular land plants Baragwanathia, oldest of its kind in the world.
Wooramel Seagrass Bank
The largest seagrass grove in the world, covers 1,030 square kilometres.
Suoi Giang tea forest (Suối Giàng)
Here grow possibly the world’s oldest tea trees that are up to 3,000 years old. In total in this forest grow more than 85,000 old tea trees. This could be one of the oldest tea plantations in the world.
Menara – the world’s tallest tropical tree, Danum Valley
The tallest known tree in the tropics and the tallest flowering plant in the world, a 100.8 m tall Shorea faguetiana.
